{"id":72250,"date":"2026-04-21T05:01:38","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T10:01:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/21\/trumps-federal-reserve-chair-pick-to-face-lawmakers-at-key-confirmation-hearing-us-politics-live\/"},"modified":"2026-04-21T05:01:38","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T10:01:38","slug":"trumps-federal-reserve-chair-pick-to-face-lawmakers-at-key-confirmation-hearing-us-politics-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/21\/trumps-federal-reserve-chair-pick-to-face-lawmakers-at-key-confirmation-hearing-us-politics-live\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump\u2019s Federal Reserve chair pick to face lawmakers at key confirmation hearing \u2013 US politics live"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The hearing marks a key hurdle Kevin Warsh must overcome in order to succeed Jerome Powell when his term ends on 15 May<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jerome Powell\u2019s term as chair ends on 15 May. He said last month that he would remain as chair until a successor is named.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Powell also is serving a separate term as a member of the Fed\u2019s governing board that lasts until January 2028.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/live\/2026\/apr\/21\/us-politics-latest-news-kevin-warsh-federal-reserve-donald-trump\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The hearing marks a key hurdle Kevin Warsh must overcome in order to succeed Jerome Powell when his term ends on 15 May Jerome Powell\u2019s term as chair ends on 15 May. He said last month that he would remain as chair until a successor is named. Powell also is serving a separate term as &#8230; <a title=\"Trump\u2019s Federal Reserve chair pick to face lawmakers at key confirmation hearing \u2013 US politics live\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/21\/trumps-federal-reserve-chair-pick-to-face-lawmakers-at-key-confirmation-hearing-us-politics-live\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Trump\u2019s Federal Reserve chair pick to face lawmakers at key confirmation hearing \u2013 US politics live\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72250","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72250"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72250\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}